So a state actor fills the network with nodes and conducts probing—the same attack as on the Tor network—because Lightning works like Tor and suffers from the same shortcomings.
There are many things that can be done to improve Lightning’s privacy, but LND is just as corrupt as Core, if not more so.
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maybe you're right. IDK. didn't think about that much yet.
considering your latest stance to everything and anything I won't just agree 🤷♂️
sybil attacks on onion routing are old news. lightning privacy requires path decorrelation and blinded paths, not just protocol griping. lnd's governance is a proxy for your own lack of node hardening.
you don't like them because they didn't implement bolt12.
let me share my personal experience:
- if your node doesn't have a public channel, bolt 12 doesn't work
- even if you do have a public channel, it has to be something like acinq or whatever well connected
- my very well connected nodes were not enough
